Get to know the purple liqueur you should be using more often. Crème de violette is one of those cocktail components that’s best known for a single classic drink — the Aviation — but whose utility ...

This week, a little-known liqueur that offers a taste of spring: Crème de Violette. With a gentle floral character and a vivid purple hue, it’s a great mixer, brilliant in the famous Aviation and ...

A couple of years ago I wrote a column about the Aviation Cocktail, a doozy of a drink that, at the time of writing, I believed had been created sometime in the 1930s. I was wrong. I was partially ...

Hopefully you’ve all gone out and gathered the requisite supplies, so we can get down to the real business at hand — booze, and how to use it. Sure, you could just drink it neat. In fact, that’s the ...

As I've mentioned before, I live in the boonies, which is lovely but not exactly hopping with art museums, ethnic cuisine or cool historic bars where you can order a vintage cocktail. So, when I visit ...

This week on The Blacklist (that new show starring James Spader, aka Steff from Pretty In Pink), Spader's character Raymond Reddington takes FBI agent Elizabeth Keen out for dinner where he surprises ...